Criminal Sentencing Archives - National Pardon Centre

Good news for pardon applicants currently residing in British Columbia and Ontario. The Parole Board of Canada is upholding recent court decisions in those provinces which found retroactive changes to the pardon program under Stephen Harper and the Conservative’s ‘tough on crime’ stance to be unconstitutional. Bill C-10, which came…

Conditional sentence order Also known as house arrest, this is similar to jail, only it is served at the offender’s home. It is normally given to people charged with non-violent crimes that are sufficiently serious to warrant incarceration. These types of sentence can last from a few weeks or less…